It should come as no surprise that the word "pandemic" was deemed dictionary.com's word of the year for 2020. Seems fitting, considering the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has taken on the world ...

In this singularly extraordinary year, writers of the Oxford English Dictionary couldn’t choose just one word to define 2020. The language company broke with their annual tradition of picking one word ...

Unprecedented times beget unprecedented updates to the English language. That’s the major takeaway from the Oxford University Press — the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) — in its ...

NEW YORK — If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. “That ...

How has your 2020 been? There have surely been highs and lows for everyone, but one thing we've all shared is the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, now that it's time for popular dictionaries ...

The word received the most user submissions. After Dictionary.com named "pandemic" its Word of the Year, users of the online dictionary elected "unprecedented" as the People's Choice 2020 Word of the ...

With the year drawing to a close, I've been contacted by several journalists who've asked, "What's the word of the year for 2020?" This year has definitely been an eventful and memorable one, so there ...

Merriam-Webster has deemed “pandemic” its word of the year for 2020. Merriam-Webster selected the word after conducting a statistical analysis of search traffic for words in its online dictionary.